The physical examination of a geographical region in which promising sites are most likely to be found is

Survey archaeology

The systematic uncovering of archaeological remains through the removal of the deposits of soil and other material covering them and accompanying them is called

Excavation

When archaeologists excavate a site, they always

Excavate a small part of a site to preserve the site for future archaeologists

The sensing method that reflects pulsed radar waves off features below the surface is called

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

A computer-aided system for the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and presentation of spatial data of all kinds is called

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

When artifacts and structures from a particular time and place are grouped together, they are called a(n)

Assemblage

Ian Hodder’s work among several contemporary ethnic groups in eastern Africa showed that

Ear ornaments were symbols of group identity

Ian Hodder warns archaeologists that they may make serious errors if

They fail to recognize that the distribution of tool styles is the most reliable indicator of the boundaries of archaeological cultures

The different ways that people in different societies go about meeting their subsistence needs are called

Subsistence strategies

A supporter of unilineal evolutionary theory who had widespread influence was

Lewis Henry Morgan

A small, egalitarian social grouping whose members neither farm nor herd, but depend on wild food resources is called a

Band

A society generally larger than a band, whose members usually farm for a living is a

Tribe

Special-purpose groupings that may be organized on the basis of sex, economic role or personal interest are called

Sodalities

A society in which one person and his relatives have privileged access to wealth, power, and prestige is called a

Chiefdom

A person’s social position in a group is that person’s

Status

A stratified society that possesses a territory that is defended from outside enemies with an army and from internal disorder with police is called a

State

In some parts of the world, archaeological sites

Are of tourist interest
Play an important role in identity formation Create controversy

In the United States, the objections of Native American groups to the excavation of indigenous burials has become recognized in a law that is called

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

The 9300-year-old skeleton found in Washington state touched off a legal battle over the repatriation of the skeleton known as

Kennewick Man

In 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed

Giant statues of the Buddha

Looting archaeological sites

Makes any scientific analysis of a site impossible

In the United States, federal, state, and local legislative actions that require the consideration of environmental and cultural factors in the use of federal, state, or funds for development has led to the development of

Cultural resource management archaeology

A research approach that explores why women’s contributions have been systematically written out of the archaeological record and suggests new approaches to the human past that include such contributions is

Feminist archaeology

According to the text, the greatest challenge to male bias in archaeological interpretation concerns the roles women played in

Stone-tool manufacture

Traditional archaeological interpretations of stone tools

Favor highly formalized, elaborately retouched, standardized core tools Assume that stone tools were made for men to hunt with
Downplay or ignore the numerous flake tools that are found in sites

Joan Gero’s analysis of stone-tool use over time at the site of Huaricoto in highland Peru argues that

Women probably made and used stone tools during the later period, when the site had become a village settlement, but they were utilitarian flake tools

According to the text, _________ archaeology is critical of the assumption that the meanings of artifacts across space and over time should be interpreted in terms of a universal male-female division

Gender

In the text, the discussion of Chumash burial practices in the section on gender archaeology illustrates

That in burial, the status of undertaker was more significant than the gender of the individual

Janet Spector’s excavation of a site near Jordan, Minnesota, focused on

Post-European contact between indigenous people and settlers

Janet Spector’s archaeological work was unusual because

Dakota and non-Dakota were collaborating in teaching Dakota language, oral history, ethnobotany, ecology, and history at the site while digging continued

The study of archaeological sites associated with written records is called

Historical archaeology

To ensure that the multidisciplinary research project carried out in Kakadu National Park in Australia was conducted in a responsible and respectful way, members of the local Aborigine community

Had a member supervise the project
Insisted that the archaeologists complete work at one site before moving on to another
Learned archaeological procedures

Today, many archaeologists are taking the view that they must

Become cosmopolitan
Find a way to deal with a range of local and global stakeholders who have their own views of how cultural heritage should be managed

What is the preservation paradox referred to in the text?

The concept of preservation is itself culturally conceived.
One group’s idea of preservation can be another group’s idea of destruction.

What concept does Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh suggest as “a frame archaeologists can use to begin deliberations on ethical predicaments”?

Complex stewardship

Human interference with the reproduction of another species, with the result that specific plants and animals become more useful to people and dependent on them is called

Domestication

The space a species occupies and what it eats is called its

Ecological niche

The sum of all the natural selection pressures to which a population is exposed is referred to as a(n)

Evolutionary niche

When an organism actively perturbs the environment or when it actively moves into a different environment, it is engaging in

Niche construction

David Rindos argues that plant domestication came about because

There were natural selection effects on the plants based on the unconscious activities of people in eating and propagating the plants

A conflict among scholars concerning domestication centers on

Whether were people were aware of what they were doing in intervening in the gene pool of wild plants

The systematic modification of the environments of plants and animals to increase their productivity and usefulness is called

Agriculture

The systematically modified environment (or constructed niche) that becomes the only environment within which domesticated plants can flourish is referred to as

Agroecology

According to Bruce Smith, the ancestors of domesticated seed plants were

Weedy generalists that thrived in disturbed environments

To be dispersed successfully in its wild state, wheat requires

A brittle rachis

Compared with wild wheat, domesticated wheat

Is better tasting
Has a larger seed head
Has six rows of kernels rather than two

The process of increasingly permanent human habitation in one place is called

Sedentism

Which of the following is NOT evidence for animal domestication?

Absence of animal species outside its natural range

Why is the discovery of remains of many immature male herd animals at a site taken as evidence of human involvement with a herd?

Hunters kill animals they find; they do not go out of their way to kill only young males.
Only a small number of males are required for reproduction in a managed herd.

Which of the following characteristics is NOT desirable in an animal if domestication is the goal?

Difficult to control

The earliest evidence for goat herding dates to about

11,000 years ago

The stage in human-animal relationships that is characterized by selective hunting of herds is called

Controlled hunting

In which stage in human-animal relationships do people begin to control the movements of a herd?

Which of the following is NOT a theory for the cause of domestication?

Independent invention

A population is living off a secure subsistence base, eating plants and animals caught by hunting, fishing, and gathering. The population expands, and as it does, it puts pressure on the resource base, forcing people to eat “third-choice” foods, especially grains. They discovered that the grain responded to human efforts to increase yields, and they came to rely increasingly on it. This scenario would fit best with which of the following theories of agricultural development?

Broad spectrum foraging theory

A modern multiple-strand theory of domestication includes the local effects of

Climate
Environment Social organization

The first evidence of the cultural tradition called the Natufian is found at about how many years before the present?

12,500

Which of the following is evidence that the Natufians lived in relatively permanent settlements?

Bones of young gazelles and migratory birds at the sites Permanent buildings at settlement sites
Cemeteries

According to the text, both Belfer-Cohen and Henry argue that extensive Natufian artistic activity was connected with

Handling social tensions

The evidence from Natufian burials leads scholars like Donald Henry to conclude that

There was unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige in Natufian society

How did the Natufians respond to the changes in the resources they depended on?

Some began to keep cereal plants growing in areas that were no longer ideal. Some returned to a nomadic foraging way of life.

The appearance of domesticated plants is taken to be the end of one great cultural period and the beginning of another. The period that ENDS with the beginning of domestication is called the

Paleolithic

Which of the following was one of the first crops domesticated in Southwest Asia?

Barley

The culture in which the agricultural subsistence strategy expanded rapidly was the

PPNB

In Mesoamerica, which of the following appeared together?

Squash, maize

Archaeologists are coming to agree that domestication was everywhere invented by

Complex foragers living in areas of relatively abundant resources

As cited in the text, Zeder and Smith argue that people

Tried a variety of different plants and animals to see which could be useful domesticated resources
Were actively and deliberately shaping adaptive niches

Which of the following is a consequence of domestication?

Decline in quality of diet
Reliance on smaller number of plants Environmental degradation

According to the text, how do sedentism and domestication represent a change in worldview?

Land is transformed into owned territories

Following Polanyi, Rhoda Halperin connects locational movements, or “changes of place,” with

Ecological relationships

Following Polanyi, Rhoda Halperin connects appropriational movements, or “changes of hands” with

Economic relationships

The subsistence strategy based on collecting a wide range of plants and animals by hunting, fishing, and gathering is

Broad spectrum foraging theory

Social relations in which no great differences in wealth, power, or prestige divide members from one another are called

Egalitarian social relations

A form of social organization in which people have unequal access to wealth, power, and prestige is called

Social stratification

Which period of history began with the domestication of plants 10,300 years ago, and is referred to as the “New Stone Age”?

The Neolithic

The production of amounts of food that exceed the basic subsistence needs of the population is called

Surplus production

Particular dedication to various occupations or social roles usually found in socially complex societies is called

Occupational specialization

Which of the following is archaeological evidence for social complexity?

Monumental architecture

Which of the following is NOT a form of monumental architecture?

Farmhouse

Constructions of a greater-than-human scale are examples of

Monumental architecture

Archaeologists digging at a site in southwest Asia find a series of burials that differ in size, construction, and the quantity of objects found in each. The archaeologists might conclude that the society responsible for the burials was

Stratified

Michael Hoffman suggested that the massive expenditure of resources by early elites on luxury goods was a

Way of demonstrating the superior power of the rulers

When archaeologists find unique styles in architecture, pottery, textiles, and other artifacts distributed uniformly over a wide area, they call this a

Cultural horizon

Objects buried with a corpse are known as

Grave goods

Sherds are pieces of broken

Pots

Which of the following has been an explanation proposed for the rise of complex societies?

The need arose to construct and maintain irrigation systems in dry regions. Population pressure required someone to exercise power to allocate resources and keep social chaos from erupting.
Sedentary life in farming villages gave people the leisure time to invent social and
technological complexity.